28/10/2002 - After showcasing in London and Cuba, New York's Museum of Modern Art precedes Paris in screening the work of this indomitable 89-year-old Norwegian filmmaker

Even though it has been 33 years since the 89-year old Norwegian director Arne Skouen retired from filmmaking, he has not lost any interest for the international film scene. After learning that his 1945 Oscar-nominated Ni Liv (New life) had been selected by New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) to open a festival of film classics, Skouens expressed his pride and gratitude in an interview with Norwegian daily newspaper, Aftenposten.
Ni Liv was screened this past weekend, but the elderly director did not attend because of prior engagements at a number of international festivals featuring some of the 17 films he made over his 20-year career. Earlier this year Skouens inaugurated a review entitled Scandinavian Beauties in New York, with a new version of one of his most famous films, An-Magritt, and after being the guest of honour at the screening of three of this films at the National Film Theatre in London, Skouens travelled to Cuba for another festival.
The Norwegian director’s body of work will feature in the programme of a forthcoming exhibition at MOMA, and a selection of his films is to be screened in Paris.